FORTRAN Goes to Space: NASA and the Missions

From the IBM 704 computing room that tracked Vanguard to the coding rules that keep spacecraft alive — the scientific workload FORTRAN was built for, and the disasters when code fails.

Playlist by @birth_of_fortran

9 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. NASA Computers 1957-1959 IBM 704 - VANGUARD SATELLITE Launch "Science in Space" (Burroughs Datatron) — Computer History Archives Project ("CHAP")
2. NASAs Coding Requirements Are Insane — The PrimeTime
3. how NASA writes space-proof code — Low Level
4. NASA's 150 Million Dollar Coding Error — Real Engineering
5. NASA Trailblazer: Katherine Johnson | National Geographic — National Geographic
6. 1966 "Fear of Computer Automation?" Data Processing, history (IBM 7090, 7044, NASA)) — Computer History Archives Project ("CHAP")
7. How my early Fortran got mixed in with NASA — Strike Raid
8. Fortran: The Language That Built NASA’s Early Rockets — pandaProgramming
9. NASA Hidden Figure Dorothy J. Vaughan (Narrated by Octavia Spencer) — NASA